Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-08-03
SOUTH T NOTES.

Our townsman. Mr.. Dawson, is enjoying
a visit from his father and mother. The
old folks are from Illinois and will spend
several months here.-Miss MolIie Fallon,
of Helena, visited South Butte last week
the guest OF Mrs. j. H. McQueeney Mrs.
Pace has moved into the new Keystone
Hotel and resumed business. This is the
only building rebuilt on the burnt block
Moritz Koch has built an addition to his
brick cottage in South Butte, and it is now
occupied by the LIE Page family. The Ken
yon Hardware company ha e leased the
larger frame building at the brick vard
and are using it as a storehouse for heavy
hardware.-Mr. r. NJ. Cobban is adjoining
his residence with the addition of a hand
some new forehand bay window.-Mrs. AL.
Hazlett spent last week visiting friends in
Anaconda.-Mrs. Allen. sister of Mrs.
Frank Ould, arrived in the city last Thurs.
day morning, from Montpelier, Idaho, to
attend the funeral of her sisters child. She
returned home on Sunday evenings train
Gus Hageman, conductor on the Montana
Union. ~reioices in the arrival of a nine
pound boy at his home, Sunday morning,
July 31st.-C. H. Morgan, an old-time en-
gineer on the Idaho Division of the North
ern Pacific, visited South Butte yesterday,
the guest of H. G. Diamond. He is on his
way home from a visit to London. Eng
land. He witnessed the Queens Jubilee
celebration.-W. R Eungate and wife re-
turned from a three months visit in Iowa
last Thursday.-An eleven-ponnd boy was
born to Mr.. and Mrs. N. Leclair yesterday
morning.-Gus Riddles, Jim Longstaff and
Dan Hungate are now the owners OF steeds
that promise great deeds in the future.
They spend their evenings out on the fats
in that pleasant pastime OF breaking their
steedS-Jimmy Touhy's team INDUCED in
q lively runaway last evening. They ran
around the houses in the neighborhnod of
Durand's sta bles and succeeded in CON-
pletely demolishing the wagon and tearing
out the corner OF a house on Arizona
street. They were stopped ont on the fiat
and one horse found to be slightly injured
The Montana Union sent out a special yes
terday morning to Garrison, 10 bring in
some Union Pacific ofticials.-Mrs j. D.
Ritter and daughter left yesterday morning
for Dillon, TO spend a week visiting friends.
Marion NcCombs has returned from his
prospecting trip.-Dave Charles, Jack
Meeks, s. w. Davis, George Hale and
Tresham ran a foot race If a hundred
yards on Front street Saturday night for
q purse of ten dollars. S. ".
Davis was declared winner,
and carried off the stakes. -
Messrs. Burns and Wells. two prominent
South Butte gentlemen, came to grief Satur-
day in ar effort to show their %gallantry.
Mrs. B. F. Mahan, of Anaconda, drove her
horse to the depot to meet Mr.. Mahan.
The horse becoming unmanageable, she
asked Mr.. Burns to hold him while she
walked over to tie train. Mr.. Burns got
int.' the buggy with his friend Mr.. Wells. |
Almost Immediately the horse started on a
run up one street and down another, the
gentlemen using their united strength to
control him. He ran between the North |
western Forwarding Co.'s office. and a
wagon standing in front ttking off one
wheel, throwing both gentlemen out. ran
down street, turning into Jim Browns
corral. utterly wrecking the buggy. Burns
a slightly hurt, but he is "on deck" as
usual at the Northwestern Hotel-Frank
Durand has gone to the Basin wood camp.